Re: An article for Pressing On and other Politico'
Boy, he sure got bonked on the head in the reader's comments. lol
Lots to say, but these were the things that I really enjoyed reading. LOL
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Academics and public employees (and of course many, perhaps most, academics in the United States are public employees) love the arts of peace and hate the demands of war. Economically, defense spending competes for the public-sector dollars that academics and public employees think are rightfully their own. More important, I think, warriors are competitors for the honor that academics and public employees think rightfully belongs to them. Jacksonians, in contrast, place a high value on the virtues of the warrior and little value on the work of academics and public employees. They have, in historian David Hackett Fischer's phrase, a notion of natural liberty: People should be allowed to do what they want, subject to the demands of honor. If someone infringes on that liberty, beware: The Jacksonian attitude is, "If you attack my family or my country, I'll kill you." And he (or she) means it. If you want to hear an eloquent version, listen to Sen. Zell Miller's speech endorsing George W. Bush at the 2004 Republican National Convention. The academic who hears the Rev. Jeremiah Wright declaiming, "God ************ America," is not unnerved. He hears this sort of thing on campus all the time. The Jacksonian who watches the tape sees an enemy of everything he holds dear.
The gist of the article.
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(on Obama) suggest a certain insouciance
That's the impression I get from him.
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He (Obama) has the body of a younger man—he is slim like a man of 31 rather than 46—and moves gracefully but without exuding the sense that you get from every movement of Colin Powell, that he is in charge.
I agree.
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Ronald Reagan also had the gift of graceful maneuver, from the movies discipline of knowing the camera was always on him, but he also had the sense of command and an understanding that he must always be in charge: hence the moment, after he was shot and then walked out of the ambulance into George Washington University hospital, when he got out of the car, stood up and (for me, the greatest gesture) buttoned his suit coat, and walked into the building and then, when out of camera range, collapsed on the floor.Would Obama be capable of doing that, while in great pain and in mortal danger? Maybe. The academic doesn't think about it. The Jacksonian thinks it's very unlikely.
Reagan the cool cucumber!!
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We all think Obama is a wimp and him bowling a 37 makes him look even more like a wimp. I bet he drinks wine coolers.
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Your analysis, overall, is interesting. But I want to propose a disagreement on specifics: San Diego went for Obama. San Diego is not a "Latte Liberal" or "Academic" county. San Diego county traditionally is one of the counties in California that breaks Republican while neighbors to the north are Dem territory. The Reason? Military. San Diego is a military city still. And if you want to know how the nation's armed forces are leaning, San Diego is as good a proxy as any.
Yikes!
Thank, Ferd, I'm half way through the Reader's Comments. Very interesting!!!
Re: An article for Pressing On and other Politico'
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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Boy, he sure got bonked on the head in the reader's comments. lol
Lots to say, but these were the things that I really enjoyed reading. LOL
Reader's Comments:
Yikes!
Thank, Ferd, I'm half way through the Reader's Comments. Very interesting!!!
PO is one who used to dump the cereal in the garbage so she could cut the puzzle off the box..
__________________ You can't reach the world with your talents. People are sick and tired of religious talents. People need a Holy Ghost annointed church with real fruits to reach out and touch their lives. ~ Pastor Burrell Crabtree
In fact I think that the insinuation of "hateful" Pentecostals is coming mostly from the fertile imaginations of bitter, backslidden ex Apostolics who are constantly trying to find a way to justify their actions. ~ strait shooter
Re: An article for Pressing On and other Politico'
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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
__________________ You can't reach the world with your talents. People are sick and tired of religious talents. People need a Holy Ghost annointed church with real fruits to reach out and touch their lives. ~ Pastor Burrell Crabtree
In fact I think that the insinuation of "hateful" Pentecostals is coming mostly from the fertile imaginations of bitter, backslidden ex Apostolics who are constantly trying to find a way to justify their actions. ~ strait shooter
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